KEY STEPS

Green light given for negotiations at United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Bali
8 June 2007 - Bonn
The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), Yvo de Boer, welcomed the G8 process on climate change, which calls for a new
global agreement under the UNFCCC by 2009 and said he was “very encouraged” by
the fact that this process was supported by the Group of 5 countries with emerging economies,
ie. Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa.

The UNFCCC Executive Secretary further greatly welcomed the instruments to address climate
change contained in the G8 communiqué, particularly the carbon market and its role in
creating economic incentives for developing countries. He noted with satisfaction that the G8
+ 5 call for the means for adaptation to be included in a future agreement along with
enhanced technology cooperation and financing. “The green light has been given for
negotiations to begin on a comprehensive, flexible and fair agreement at the United Nations
Climate Change Conference to be held in Bali in December this year,” he said.

Mr. de Boer added that a negotiating agenda must now be mapped out, which needs to address
how future climate change policies can green economic growth and assist societies, especially
the most vulnerable societies, to adapt to climate change. He said that In the context of
such an agenda, the carbon market and the transfer of clean technologies would be
essential.

UNFCCC Executive Secretary: G8 document reenergises multilateral climate change process
under the United Nations
7 June 2007 - Bonn
According to Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC), Thursday’s agreement on climate change clinched at the G8 summit
in Heiligendamm has paved the way for negotiations in Bali in December and given climate talks
under the auspices of the UN a considerable boost.
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Summit Declaration (7 June 2007)